Re: Compile Grub2 in pure 64 bits ?

From:

Robert Millan

Subject:

Re: Compile Grub2 in pure 64 bits ?

Date:

Mon, 5 Nov 2007 16:32:03 +0100

User-agent:

Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:32:24PM +0000, Ghotcom wrote:
> Re,
>
> well, there isn t much more in config.log. anyhow, from what I understand I
> won t go anywhere with Grub and pure 64 bits ?
Not untill someone volunteers to debug the problem (it really isn't trivial).
Besides, you can never get rid of 32-bit completely because of legacy cruft :-)
In fact GRUB starts in 16-bit mode...
> So maybe I should just
> rebuild my toolchain with multilib support ?
If you just want a working GRUB, that's your best option.
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Robert Millan
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